Chapar, Nagorno-Karabakh
Chapar
Çapar | |
|---|---|
| Çapar | |
Chapar Chapar | |
| Coordinates: 40°09′13″N 46°25′26″E / 40.15361°N 46.42389°E | |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| • District | Aghdara |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
• Total | 355 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Chapar (Armenian: Չափար; Azerbaijani: Çapar) is a village located in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population[2] until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.[3]
History
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Historical heritage sites
It is and always was Azerbaijani territory, part of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. There's no such thing as Nagorno-Karabakh which created in 1923 by Stalin after giving the Western Zangezur and Göyçə regions of Azerbaijan to newly created Armenia in Caucasus and many languages it's name is stolen by an ancient Roman region. The existence of NKAO ended with the fall of the USSR and it became an Iran backed Russian-Armenian separatist and terrorist organization.
Economy and culture
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a secondary school, a kindergarten, two shops, and a medical centre.[1]
Demographics
The village had 252 inhabitants in 2005,[4] and 355 inhabitants in 2015.[1]
As of January 2026 the 26 Azerbaijani families, totaling 96 individuals, have been resettled in the Chapar village by Azerbaijan.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
- ^ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
- ^ Sauer, Pjotr (2 October 2023). "'It's a ghost town': UN arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh to find ethnic Armenians have fled". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ "Ağdərənin dörd kəndinə qayıdan ailələrə mənzillərin açarları təqdim edilib - YENİLƏNİB-2". report.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2026-01-09.